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Newspaper
Lorain County Reporter
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1893
Page
2
A diverse mash of curios and notes including weather oddities currency tales and rail electrification plans. Reports reference Newfoundland ice hazards Grand Fall a Grand Falls Me exhibitions in 1895 and electric train speeds of 110 miles per hour.
The report cites a fight in Wise County Virginia between state troops and outlaws in which four soldiers were killed and six outlaws mortally wounded. Other items mention arrests, fires, bank closures, drownings, and various accidents across the United States.
A jumble of obituaries and notices: Tur J Obermann Brewing in Milwaukee failed with 296 500, foreign representations in a parade of commercial travelers in Chive Ro, and 14 000 men in St Louis. Several prominent deaths and political appointments follow including Charles F Washburn in Worcester and Gen G Warkin in Washington. George Perkins named senator to replace Leland Stanford. William Vandever and John H McAvoy noted among others.
Reports describe cholera raging among the poor in Moscow and appearing in Naples. A ban blocks fodder exports from Austria-Hungary. A Quebec village is destroyed by fire, leaving sixty homeless. Elsewhere ships, dynamos, and factory explosions cause deaths and injuries. An Arctic explorer dies in London. Hawaii crisis looms over a provisional government.
The notice tallies several incidents including two children killed in a hay mow accident near Munice Indiana, a factory worker killed while attempting to jump a moving electric car in Marfeld Virginia, and a brakeman killed in a Norfolk and Western collision near Welch West Virginia. It also cites Elgin watch factory plans to cut staff by half, a Milwaukee bank note firm assignment with bond, and Seathh ard Bros woolen mills closing in Philadelphia due to weak trade. Additional reports cover a threshing yard incident near Wingo Kentucky where a black man was killed, a Denver relief effort for hungry people, rising unemployment among miners, and arrests tied to the Denver bank failure.
Paris dispatches report France intends a blockade of Siamese coast with military operations to follow after M Pavie leaves Bangkok aboard the Inconstante. Siamese minister leaves Bangkok as talks seek a peaceful settlement with Britain and pressure on Siam from Paris grows.
A San Francisco Call excerpt describes West Point as a “Westwalwater Abbey” with a memorial tablet and a cemetery row featuring Gen. Scott, Anderson, Sumter, and Custer. It recalls Miss Warner and Miss Anna Warner guiding cadets at Constitution Island, Battery Knox, and social dances at West Point. It notes the army tradition and cadet life through generations and mentions Kadet rites and the fond home ties of soldiers. It also includes a long, separate note on Zanzibar ivory trade, elephants, tusks, and uses of ivory for grain pounders and ornaments, citing heavy hunting and market figures.
A Colorado displacement crisis prompts A Gluck mayoral proclamation in Dodge City urging residents to aid the army of idle men passing through. He says most are deserving and seeking work, appealing for funds to meet immediate needs and deter theft.
Washington July 25 The grand jury found a true bill against Col F C Ainsworth chief of the record and pension division of the war department George W Dant the contractor for the electric light plant William E Covert superintendent and Francis Basae engineer in charge of the building holding them responsible for the Ford's Theater disaster of June last in which twenty three persons lost their lives and many were injured
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